MAKE YOUR VOLUNTEERING IMPACTFUL
Do you plan to volunteer?
Do you want your efforts to be as impactful as possible?
You’ve come to the right place.
We aim to help you identify, investigate and choose your impactful volunteering opportunity.
If you’re willing to put your time into volunteering and helping others, you’ve already made an amazing and appreciable decision. We’re here to help you with another one: Which volunteering opportunity should you pursue?
VOLUNTEER WHERE YOU CAN HELP OTHERS THE MOST
Naturally, we want our volunteering to make a substantial impact, considering our limitations and desires. Therefore, besides considerations such as our time limitations, interests, and skills, the effectiveness of volunteering is an important criterion.
However, when considering “what will help others the most”, our intuitions can sometimes devise as. Possibilities that might seem very promising at first glance, might not turn out to be as effective in results.
This is exactly what this guide is here to help you with: Explore relevant volunteering opportunities, and evaluate them based on their impact.
HOW CAN YOU MEASURE DOING GOOD?
The guide we are about to present is built on the principles of Effective Altruism, a movement that runs extensive research on tools for measuring social impact and prioritizes opportunities for good-doing. Some of the main domains it focuses on are donations, impact-oriented careers, and volunteering. To read more about Effective Altruism, please visit our About page.
ABOUT US
Effective Altruism
Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement focused on answering one question: How can we best help others?
Generally, our resources are limited, so we have to use them wisely when we want to do good.
Effective altruism is the project of:
Using evidence and reason to find the most promising causes to work on.
Taking action, by using our time and money to do the most good we can.
Effective Volunteering
Effective altruism can guide the path in many aspects, such as career paths, donations, etc. Volunteering is one of these aspects, and the guide that is presented in this site is mean to assist in deciding how to volunteer according to the values and considerations of the Effective Altruism movement.